Milk-bottle holder.



E. M. SUMMERHAYS.

MILK BOTTLE HOLDER.

APPLICATION EILED JAN-5,1916.

Patented July 10, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

lNVENTOR WITNESSES ATTOR N EY E. M. SUMMERHAYS.

lVllLK BOTTLE HOLDER.

APPUCATION FILED JANIS. 1916.

Patented July '10 2 SHEETSSHEET 2- NVENTOR ATTORNEY ELMER M. SUMMERHAYS, 0F HAMMOND, INDIANA.

MILK-BOTTLE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1d, 191?.

Application filed January 5, 1916. Serial No. 70,478.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER M. SUMMER- HAYs, citizen of the United States, residing at Hammond, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Milk-Bottle Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for house hold equipment and more particularly to an improved milk bottle holder of a construction designed primarily to minimize theft.

As an object of the invention I contemplate a novel lock mechanism, a novel milk bottle support, and a novel connection be-- tween said mechanism and the support.

I further contemplate an association of parts whereby an automatic operation of V the lock mechanism is obtained immediately subsequent to the imposition of a weight (the weight of a milk bottle) upon said milk bottle support.

A still further object of the invention is to generally improve in the construction of evices appertaining to this particular art.

The above and additional objects are accomplished by such means as are illustrated in their preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification and then more particularly pointed out in the claims which are appended hereto and form a part of this application.

In describing my invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of my improved milk bottle holder;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly broken away;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3--3 of Fi 2' Fight is a side elevation, illustrating a modification Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the mentioned modification;

Fig. 6 is a front elevation, away, of a further modification; and

Fig. 7 is a top plan View of a still further modification.

Before proceeding with a description of the drawings I desire to call particular attention to the fact that while I have evolved my invention with reference to its use as a partly broken milk bottle holder, the same, if desired, may be used as a holder for any and all bottles of a size susceptible of operative association with the holding device.

Referring now to the drawings by numerals, 1 designates (in dotted lines) the milk bottle, and 2 as an entirety the holder therefor. The said holder in its preferred embodiment may be said to consist of a lock case 3, an attaching plate 4:, a band 5 rigid with said plate, a vertically movable support 6, and a locking arm 7 pivoted as at 8 interiorly of the lock case 3. Lugs 9 and 10 are formed respectively upon the top edge and bottom edge of said arm 7, lug 9 cooperating with a locking bolt 11 and lug 10 cooperating with a reduced extension 12 of the support 6.

An enlargement 13 is formed at the base of the attaching plate 4 that movement of the support 6 against tension of an associated spring 14 may be limited. The lock case 3 and the band 5 act as a guide for the said support.

Bolt 11 is mounted for sliding movement transversely of the lock case 3. An enlargement 16 is formed at one end of the bolt 11 for contact with the lug 9 and an enlargement 17 at the opposite end thereof for contact with one of the bearings 18 for said bolt that its sliding movement may be limited. A spring 19 is arranged to embrace the bolt 11 and to abut respectively the enlargement 16 and one of said bearings 18, the spring, hereinafter described, operating to urge said bolt into engagement with the locking arm 7 and the lug 9 forming a part thereof. A key hole 19 is formed in the lock case 3 for the reception of a suitable key designed to engage said bolt 11 that the same may be, when it is desired that the holder be unlocked, withdrawn from engagement with the arm 7. Spring 14 previously described abuts at one end a pin 20 extending transversely through the support 6 and at its opposite end the inner wall of the lock case 3 to urge at all times said extension 12 of the mentioned support into abutting engagement with the lug 10 of the locking arm. An opening 21 is formed in the lock case 3 that the said arm 7 may project without and forwardly therefrom in a horizontal plane (when locked) and at an angle to the horizontal (when unlocked).

In operation, I will assume that the looking arm '7 is in the position indicated by the leased.

described is as 'tact with the end of the tively lock again to the angular position except subsereceive dotted lines in Fig. 1, the support 6 being elevated sufficiently to bring the extension 12 into abutting relation with the shoulder formed by the lug 10 and the locking bolt 11 withdrawn from engagement with said arm 7 and the shoulder formed by the lug.

9. Upon the deposit of a milk bottle upon the support 6, the band acting as a guide for the bottle, when thus placed, the weight of the mentioned bottle will move said support into engaging proxilnity withthe enlargement 13 at the base of the attaching plate 4 and against tension of the spring 14. F nch movement of the support6 will withdraw extension 12 thereof from engagement with the lug and permit arm 7, by reason of its weight to gravitate to a horizontal position and thus remove lug 9 from coni sliding bolt. Lug 9 having been thus withdrawn, it is evident that the spring 19 will so act upon said bolt as to cause the enlargement 16 thereof to engage with the shoulder formed by the lug 9 and through such engagement posithe arm 7 against movement quent to a withdrawal of said bolt from engagement with said lug. This latter operation is obtained, as before pointed out, through the agency of a suitable key.

Coming now to a description of the modificationillustra'ted in Figs. 1 and 5, I have dispensed with a movable support and provided in its stead a fixed support 22 having a recess 23 formed therein of a size to the milk bottle to be held. Said support 22 is secured in any suitable manner to an attaching plate 2 1 of the device. The lock mechanism of the modified holder, comprises a spring actuated locking bolt 25 of a construction similar to the locking bolt 11 of the preferred form, and an auxiliary sliding'bolt 96 spring actuateda s indicated at'27, the said auxiliary bolt being adapted for engagement with the lug 28 which corresponds to the lug 10 of the preferred device. A pin 29 is secured to the bolt 26 to extend without the lock case that the mentioned bolt may bedepressed and thus withdrawn from contact with said lug 28 when it is desired thatthe locking arm 30 be re- .Operation of thdmodification thus follows The milk bottle to be held is placed upon the support 22. Lock ing arm 30 being at an angle to the'lock case, it is but necessary that the bolt 26 be depressed against tension of its associated spring '27 through pressure on the pin 29,

such movement of the bolt causing the looking arm toibe released. When released, the said arm 30 W11]. gravitate to a horizontal position and the spring associated with the locking bolt 25" will so act upon said'bolt as to lock said arm in such position: When thus locked, a removal of the milk bottle support.

from the recess 23 cannot be effected exarm obtained through manipulation. of a suitable key as set forth in the description of the operation relating to the preferred form of my device. v I

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 6, the parts are substantially as in the modified form just described except that the auxiliary bolt designated 31 is mounted to extendparallel with the locking bolt 32. A spring 33 is arranged to embrace said bolt 31, the mentioned spring being affixed at one end to the bearing 34: for said bolt and at its opposi'te end to the arm 35. This arrangement of the spring 33 will cause pressure to be at all times exerted on said arm wherebymovement into an inoperative position may be automatic the moment said locking arm is released through movement of the bolt 32 in engagement therewith. Otherwise, as specified, the operation is substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

Proceedmg now with a description .of the modification illustrated'in Fig. '7, it is to be observed that the fixed support 36 therein illustrated is of a size and constructiondesigned to support a plurality of milk bettles in that said support is provided with aplurality of recesses 37. The locking arm 88 of the device here shown is correspondingly constructed to lock, when in a horizontal plane, heseveral bottles mounted onisaid The lock mechanism associated with this type of holder may be in accordance with that described as the preferred form or in accordance wlth the mechanism described as themodified'formof the holder I device. A From the foregoing, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings it will be observed that one or a plurality of milk bottles may be effectually held until subsequfently removed by a party possessed of a specially constructed key that the operation of the holder device is automatic and dependent, to some extent upon the'weight of the milk bottles to be locked; "andthat if desired, milk bottles varying in size'may be locked, this being obtained "through adjustment of the lock case illustrated in Figs. 1 and 5 relatively to the attaching 1 te:'24.

In reduction to practice, Ihaveffound that the form of myinvention, illustrated in the drawings and referred to in the above description, as the preferred embodiment, is l the most efliclent and practical} yet realizing that the conditions concurrentwith the adoption of my device will necessarily vary, I desire to emphasize the fact-that yarious minor changes in details ofconstruction, proportionand arrangement of parts may be resorted toIwhen reduiredwithout sacrificing any of the advantages of my inven- 1 131011, as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus fully described What I claim as new and desire to Letters Patent, is 1* 1. In a milk bottle holder, an attaching plate, an extension formed at one end of said plate, a milk bottle support, a pivoted locking arm, means urging said support toward said arm, means on said support to lock said arm in a position at an angle to the horizontal, said arm being releasable through movement of said support, and a means operating automatically to lock said arm in a position substantially horizontal subsequent to movement of said support and said first mentioned lock means from engagement With said arm.

In a milk bottle holder, a pivoted look ing arm, lugs formed upon said arm, a means to engage one of said lugs to look said arm in a position at an angle to the horizontal, said means being releasable from the lug to permit the arm to descend to asubstantially horizontal position, and a means operating automatically to engage with the other of said lugs to lock said arm in the said my invention,

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horizontal position immediately to disengagement of said first lock means and movement of said arm to such horizontal position.

In a milk bottle ing arm, a lock case inclosing the pivoted end of said arm and having an opening formed therein through which said arm extends, a lug formed upon said arm, a means to yieldingly engage With said lug to maintain said arm in a position at an angle to the lock case and in a non-locking position, a second lug formed upon said arm and a lock means mounted interiorly of the lock case to engage With the second lug and lock said arm in a position substantially horizontal and subsequent to movement from the nonlocking position to the locking position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ELMER M. SUMMERHAYS. itnesses:

E. TURNER, JOHN VAN TAMELEN.

addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

holder, a pivoted lock- 

